sitting_duck

its 830 here,,,i will be on areound 9...not sure how much help i can be to you

gb,,if axe cant,,,i probable can,,just as long as its not too late...what time did you have in mind?

File Name: Scramble !!!! File Submitter: sitting_duck File Submitted: 17 Nov 2009 File Category: Maps, Missions, and Campaigns Resitance has uncoverd a large gap in the enemys observation defenses. Fly low, rush in undetected, and try and get as many enemy planes before they can take off. To assist in our mission, resistance has cut all telegraph communications between bases. Destroy all efforts to repair these communication links. Download to seperate folder, extract and install. Readme included. Click here to download this file

what is a fokker dva???? or do i want to know....... lol..anyways,,if its a plane i can fly,,,ill be there..

Figured out how to convert a text file into a bmp, and paste it into the existing bmp that you see when you hit join game. In the old cfs3, this would be the games that are up, but as the servers are down, for the most part it is always blank. If anyone does NOT want me to include thier ip, pm me, and i will omit them. But imho, having a list of everyones ip right there in front of us when we hit join game would be helpful. when finished, will post bmp file. those who want it can use it,,those who dont...well,,,dont,,, lol..but this is just a bmp file,,,it wont screw anything up...

This is what i got. Its the least obtrusive as you can get,,and see still a list. If you dont pm me, i will enter your ip. will not enter ips for anyone who has not been coming online lately. will put link to bmp in tuturial, so only ppl seeing it are those who need it the most (ie,,,new players).. Any of you new pilots that think you might be hosting in the future (and i hope thats all of you)...go to whatismyipaddress.com, and get your ip if you want me to add it to the list.

cfs3 does not do much if anything in the registry, so manually deleting all the folders will effect an uninstall you didnt say what os you had..but aside from the main folder (programfiles\microsoft games\cfs3,,,,there are folders in my documents\xxxxxxx\application data (appdat in vista)\microsoft that need to be removed to...(xxxxx can either be administrator, or your user name) there are alot of stickies out there on how to install...but basically its cfs3,,patch it to 3.1 if its not already a 3.1 version, and be sure to run it at least once before you put on bhah..... if bhah is still on the computer,,i would take that off too...there are off3 folders in that same directory as the cfs3 folders you had to find,,so get them also.... Be sure cfs3 is running fine before you install off...if cfs3 is screwed up,,,,its likely off will be screwed up too.

Ax, you know i never come in the way of progress.......(just as long as its progress......)

it works fine, and the only reason its called a beta is cause i guess the guy just didnt want to commit his whole life to it..lol you can tell it what, and what not to display,,,the options are your name when you talk,,,ppls names when they talk,,,fps (very handy), and i belive time. you can tell it font,,and where on the screen to display the info..... not sure why gb could not get it working... i just always seem to forget to start mine up when i get into a game....

KingKat, I am going to try and have something up on tuesdays...730ish edt...so if thats good for you, i can earmark it for getting you squared away in whatever areas you want.

Ok,,kinda understand what you are saying, but what i was trying to avoid was having to redo the whole thing if a new player joined, and we wanted to add the ip. Which is why i went to the notepad...save as text..convert to bmp, proceedure, and just pasted the bmp into the splash screen. and, you probably know this better than me,,,,but you definatly cannot have a transparent layer in a bmp,,found that out...so can you paste a gif file onto a bmp and save it?? in all my attempts,,,it sorta worked,,but the text got incredibly fuzzy. went back and looked at the splash screen i put up in the forum, and to be honest,,it doenst look that bad to me,,,its easy,,and lol....its just a splash screen, its only up as long as it takes you to add the ip... but if you can come up with something better looking,,,id would love to see it. just think its important to make it easy to add/update the numbers and names

ok,,think i got the date right this time.. will try and have a session up around 730 edt. WILL POST HERE when up and on teamspeak....apologize for neglecting to do this in the past....

I only thru all this out as a suggestion..if ppl want a list of ppls ips handy when they go join,,its possible and easy,,,now making it look good (if making that splash screen look good is really that important) is another step. And if ppl dont want the list,,they dont have to use it...pretty simple.... Van baur, if you have the time, and want to fool with it be my guest. I can send you the utilty i use to convert a text to bmp if you dont have one. i got jasc,,,and tried,,,with terrible results...think part of the problem is that you can make a gif transparent, but not sure if you can make a bmp transparent. One thing i did do is start in word, and make a table, and made my entries there,,that way you can sort the name colums. And while i did say if ppl dont want theri ips posted, they certainly have that right, kinda find it hard to understand why anyone would try and protect something they toss out so freely in mp games... so personnaly,,dont see the need to hide this list from anyone.... i mean damn,,if a new player comes on line,,,we're not going to give him the ip cause we dont know them?

you dont have to tell me this looks lousy,,,,i dont have psp here anymore, so cant make the background transparent,,,but you wouldnt have to remeber the ips,,they would be there as you had to type them in

lol....hey,,,click on this........ yes,,the info would be there all the time,,(when you click on multiplayer medal).. your right,,copy and paste would be great...but beyond my scope....if someone else???? yep,,have to remeber,,and type in,,,,,,i did try to get the ip's into that next window,,,(the one where you actully type in the ips)...so you didnt have to remeber...but that was a disaster... clickable list,,,wow...woudnt it be great if we had clickable lists for our wives..........lol...no..again,,beyond my scope, but would be great if someelse.... but if the list where copied onto the splash screen, (wwi initialising), and the background of the list (white) where made transparent....it wouldnt look to bad,,,and you wouldnt have to remeber the numbers. unfortunatly the way i did it first,,when you click on join game,,,the popup where you enter the ip covers the list,,and you can not drag it out of the way...

File Name: Dover Straits Racing 4 File Submitter: sitting_duck File Submitted: 14 Nov 2009 File Updated: 16 Nov 2009 File Category: Maps, Missions, and Campaigns This is a custom skin mission. It will install the skins as you see in the screenshot. It also includes a file to remove the skins, and a file to restore the skins for pilots who do not wish to encounter red white and blue spads in other game play. Everything you need to know is in the readme. Download file to seperate folder and extract. Install from msi file within folder. Click here to download this file

lol...ok...sorry..forgot to post again...game is up,,,and on teamspeak

Would like to think i might be able to put up more weekday sessions, but thing i HATE about hosting is the burden of running missions/games that are enjoyable to everyone. If there are enough ppl interested, would like to consider sessions where everyone inputs the facets of a game (ie,,what we fly,,what we encounter,,,ground targets..lenth of mission. weather,,location)...and i would build a quick mission based on the input, and we would fly it. That way,,if the mission sucks,,no one can blame me....